Thanks, one of my goals is to make it as user friendly as possible, so people don't having to spend lots of time setting all this up from scratch and at the same time provide good documentation and tutorials to use it.

To improve making packages on Windows for HstWB Installer, I have found a way of converting a zip file to Amiga. This makes it appears as if it was created on an Amiga and can successfully be extracted with system files. Previously I had to create zip files with SYS: or Workbench system files on an Amiga for it to work properly when extracting it again on an Amiga. This was a bit cumbersome having to start en emulator each time to make a zip.

First script creates a zip file from a directory in a proper format that can be extracted correctly on Amiga. Basically, it ensures that each directory is added to the zip file. Powershell zip compression or 7za command line tools only includes empty directories. The script was needed, so I can create zip files from command line, but 7-Zip file manager, WinRAR and Windows build-in zip compression does also create zip files in proper format.

The second script converts a zip file to Amiga for it to extract properly with added protection bits. It reads the zip file, patches zip entries and writes a new zip file. The zip entries ‘VersionMadeBy’ is changed to 279 (Amiga) and ‘ExternalFileAttributes’ is set to 135200784 for directories and 68091904 for files. This means protections bits will be set to '----RWED', when extracted on Amiga. Surely these numbers represent flags in an enum, but I haven’t found more details about what they actually mean. I only found the external file attributes by examining zip files created on Amiga and would be nice if someone has more details about protection bit flags to make more clear code in the scripts.

This page contains downloads for HstWB Installer v1.1.0-BETA1 together with 4GB, 8GB and 16GB self install HDF images ready for use. All self install images are build using the this HstWB Installer beta version.

I don't want to delay a final release further as it's only documentation that is missing:
- Tutorial 3: Running self install in an emulator or on real Amiga: The last few steps are missing description, but screenshots should help explain the process.
- HstWB Package: No documentation yet, so stick to ClassicWB packages unless you want to test it. Note it requires BetterWB package therefore remember to also install BetterWB together with HstWB Package.

If you just want to see what it is and what HstWB Installer can build, here's a YouTube video showing self install of the 4GB HDF image
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Please try one of the self install HDF images and let me know what you think

I have also updated and added new image templates, so now it's possible to create 32GB and 64GB HDF images. Existing image template sizes have been adjusted using a new create_hdf_file.ps1 powershell script I use to create HDF file that should fit into any brand CF/SD card.

Now it's all about the last fine tuning and tweaks, so expect the final version within the next days .

Other great news is that I received my Vampire 600 V2 card 2 days ago and this card is really awesome work put together by entire Apollo Team, Majsta and Kipper2k .

I have already planned support for Vampire cards after releasing HstWB Installer .

Not sure you want to take this direction, but here's a feature suggestion for the future: Add more content in addition to games and demos.
Some suggestions: Non-WHDload games, ScummVM games, mod music, art/graphics, maybe even (freeware?) programs by category?

It seems people find it useful as download statistics says 100GB+ has been transfered from HstWB page downloads .

Good input for additional packages. I did think about making packages to install ScummVM, ShapeShifter, Fusion, PC-Task, DosBox and Non-WHDLoad games like DOOM, Quake, Tank Furry and so on. Games will require acceptance from developers to include them and ScummVM will only have basic setup ready for users to add games themselves to it. Maybe some ScummVM freeware games could be included.

I currently use it in A600 internal IDE port to mount and boot partitions on SD card installed in Vampire accelerator card. It works and might be a crazy side project, but it solved my need to boot from Vampire SD card and make it easy to adjust, if partitions or SD card is changed.

Last edited by cyberhead97; 29 June 2017 at 22:57.
Reason: Added link to readme

I studied installer's for both Amiga OS 3.9 and Picasso 96 to automate as much as possible. It does a full installation from iso mounted using filedisk.device and amicdfs. This is to make it work in any emulator without need of adding dvd drive or iso as cdrom drive in the emulator. Next is automating installation of Boing Bags and making Picasso 96 uaegfx optional. HstWB Installer v1.2.0-BETA is not released yet, but can be cloned from my github repo.

I have managed to add automated installation of Boing bags 1 & 2 to Amiga OS 3.9 support in HstWB Installer v1.2.0-BETA. It can now automatically install Amiga OS 3.9 and Boing Bags in less than 2 minutes and here's a video showing it
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